FwOff Topic- Cal. Energy crunch

[Erwinpiano]

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Please forgive me I couldn't resist sharing this.

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> > America has engaged in some finger wagging lately because California
> > doesn't
> > have enough electricity to meet its needs.  The rest of the country
> > (including George W. Bush's energy secretary Spencer Abraham, who wants
> > Californians to suffer through blackouts as justification for drilling
for
> > oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) seems to be just fine
> with
> > letting Californians dangle in the breeze without enough power to meet
> > their
> > needs.  They laugh at Californians' frivolity.
> >
> > Well, everybody.   Here's how it really is:
> >
> > California ranks 48th in the nation in power consumed per person.
> >
> > California grows more than half the nation's fruit, nuts and vegetables.
> > We're keeping them.  We need something to eat when the power goes out.
We
> > grow 99 percent or more of the nation's almonds, artichokes, dates,
figs,
> > kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins and walnuts.
> > Hope you won't miss them.
> >
> > California is the nation's number one dairy state.  We're keeping our
> dairy
> > products.  We'll need plenty of fresh ones since our refrigerators can't
> be
> > relied upon.  Got milk?
> >
> > We Californians are gonna keep all our high-tech software in state.
> > Silicon
> > Valley is ours, after all.  Without enough electricity, which you're
> > apparently keeping for yourselves, we just plain don't have enough
> software
> > to spare.
> >
> > We're keeping all our airplanes.  California builds a good percentage of
> > the
> > commercial airliners available to fly you people to where you want to
go.
> > When yours wear out, you'd better hope Boeing's Washington plant can
keep
> > you supplied.  There isn't enough electricity here to allow us to export
> > any
> > more planes than we need ourselves.  And while we're at it, we're
keeping
> > all our high-tech aerospace stuff, too, like the sophisticated weapons
> > systems that let you sleep at night, not worried you might wake up under
> > the
> > rule of some foreign kook.  Oh, yeah, and if you want to make a
> > long-distance call, remember where the satellite components and tracking
> > systems come from.  Maybe you could get back in the habit of writing
> > letters.
> >
> > Want to see a blockbuster movie this weekend?  Come to California.  We
> make
> > them here.  Since we'll now have to make them with our own electricity,
> > we're keeping them.  Even if we shot them somewhere else, the labs,
> > printing
> > facilities, editing facilities, and sound facilities are all here.
> >
> > Want some nice domestic wine?  We produce over 17 million gallons per
> year.
> > We'll need all it to drown our sorrows when we think about the fact that
> no
> > matter how many California products we export to make the rest of
> America's
> > lives better, America can't see its way clear to help us out with a
little
> > electricity.  You can no longer have any of our wine.
> >
> > You all complain that we don't build enough power plants.  Well, you
don't
> > grow enough food, write enough software, make enough movies, build
enough
> > airplanes and defense systems or make enough wine.
> >
> > Love,
> > The Californians
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